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Due to health care education, more people, who are over forty, those born in 1946 to 1964, commonly known as the baby boomers, are realizing the benefits of taking up sports or exercising in a gym.

This is well and good since exercising regularly severely cut the risks of contracting aging and obesity related potentially killer diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, some forms of cancers and many other diseases.

It is indeed heartening to know that more baby boomers are taking charge of their health through regularly exercise to improve their cardiovascular health thus becoming fitter and stronger. However, with more middle aged people exercising and playing some form of sports, instances of injuries sustained from these activities have risen substantially.

In the United States, these gym or sports injuries have become the number 2 reason for people visiting the doctor’s office just behind the common cold, reported by the National Ambulatory Medical Care in 2003.

A Consumer Product Safety Commission research in 1998 found that sports related injuries to baby boomers had risen by 33 percent since 1991 and contributed to US$18.7 billion in medical costs.

Outdoor sports such as tennis, jogging and golf are very popular with people over forties. Not to be outdone, the more body conscious over forties baby boomers are also joining gym memberships in the multitudes.

Gyms all over the developed world are happily reporting booming new memberships year after year with a large pool of their members being the over forty baby boomers brigade, male or female baby boomers irrespective.

As baby boomers get older, their susceptibility to sports injuries rise proportionately. As people age, their body degenerate along with the aging process, although exercising regularly is known to slow down this very degeneration process.

This is particularly so for the risky weekend warriors who take to the running tracks or lifting weights to build their body with gusto during the weekend putting their aging bodies and joints to sudden busts of unaccustomed stressful activities, causing damages to their own bodies unknowingly.

What are the common baby boomer’s sports injuries? How to avoid them?

• Shoulder injuries – Common for those playing squash, tennis, badminton and lifting weights in the gym using wrong form and techniques.

• Elbow injuries – People who play racket games and bodybuilders.

• Back injuries – A very common occurrence in the gym amongst baby boomer bodybuilder wannabes. Also a common injury for golfers who often have to swing their spine.

• Knee injuries – For baby boomers who participate in sports with sudden movements and changes of directions such as squash and soccer.

•Ankle injuries – Usually striking the runners and joggers of long distances.

How to avoid the risks of sports injuries for the over forties?

This is largely common sense which most people know but few do it regularly as part of their exercise routine in so doing, risking injuries which can be avoided.

• Thorough warm of the muscles and joints which will be involved in the exercise or sport.

• Stretching adequately and correctly. Many people stretch in the wrong manner which then may cause even more injuries.

• Take the exercises or sports one step at a time, then as endurance and strength build up over time, you can then increase the intensity of the sport or the exercise.

• Exercise regularly. Not just over the weekend. Your body may not be able to cope with the sudden outburst each weekend.

• Hire a sports personal trainer who can tailor an exercise program suitable to your health condition and guide you safely through the exercises.

So baby boomers, don’t become a victim of your exercises. You want to be fit and healthy, not suffering from pain and despair from what could have been an enjoyable game of healthy sporting activity. Over 40s sports injuries can be avoided.

Liberate yourself – Go out and do what you like! – How long it has been since you last went to have a walk among the pines – something that you loved as a child? How long has it been when you walked hand in hand with your friend to the bakery and tossed a coin to decide what to buy? These might seem very simple things but these simple things have the power to add on to build great confidence and fulfilment. Life if see is actually quite simple. What gets a bit too complex though is to remain simple. Isn’t it? Just as small drops of water make the mighty ocean, the little things you enjoy doing have the capability to turn you into a storehouse of confidence. When God made you, He put a desire in your heart and bestowed onto you the capability to achieve it. However, in the process of growing up, you forgot what exactly your purpose was, what is that you liked and what is that you enjoyed doing. It does happen with lots and lots of people who do feel like breaking free but are too tied up in their day to day responsibilities that it gets impossible for them to spare even 10 minutes to reflect on their lives, their direction, their dreams and goals. It’s our duty to clear the mess that prevents us from hearing to our heart. The conversations with your heart should keep getting clearer and the best way to do it is to find time to do what you enjoy. And since you enjoy doing that activity, it straightaway means that you have all the aptitude and intelligence necessary to do the job effortlessly even though you may not realize it.

Find your flock – Birds of a feather flock together. You must find out people with whom you enjoy being. They are certainly the people of your frequency and the energy flow between you and them is natural. Life becomes easy when you are among the people who are more or less on the same plane of thought as you and it’s easier to relate to them. They seem to understand you and vice versa thus creating conditions for healthy conversations. A good conversation is a very healthy exercise and an important need of our mind. We all want our ideas to be heard and appreciated and a good company provides platform for the same.

Set Achievable Goals and Go for it! – The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The idea is to begin with a small single step that can then further developed into giant strides. Learn to do the work at hand rather than to overwhelm oneself by looking at the entirety of a mammoth looking task. Just like the soil underneath your foot, the top of mountain too would someday be under your step. The only way to do something is to GO FOR IT! No matter how small the progress is the focus should be on completing a task successfully even though it’s a small task. A series of big uncompleted task is a sure shot way to depression. Break a big task into a list of small tasks to be completed. Tick off from your list each job successfully completed. A completed task no matter how small it is gives a sense of achievement that boosts our confidence and equips us with more energy to try a bigger task.

Right now, millions of students across the country are participating in physical activities at their schools – a basketball or soccer game, football and cheerleading practice or gym class. What if one of them had a life-threatening cardiac emergency? Would the school be prepared?

Sudden cardiac arrest strikes more than 340,000 Americans each year, including children and teens, usually without warning. Heart conditions tend to go undetected and often manifest themselves during physical activity. In the event of a cardiac arrest, a quick response and the early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) are critical to improving the chances of survival.

According to the American Heart Association, early use of AEDs – portable devices that analyze the heart’s rhythm and deliver an electric shock to reestablish a normal heartbeat -could raise the chance of survival by 20 percent or more.

“Nearly 95 percent of cardiac arrest victims die – usually because defibrillation occurs too late,” said Dr. Vincent Mosesso Jr. of the National Center for Early Defibrillation based at the University of Pittsburgh. “Every minute that passes before returning the heart to a normal rhythm decreases the chance of survival by 10 percent. Patients who receive CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation] and a defibrillator shock within three minutes of going into sudden cardiac arrest have the best odds of survival.”

Unfortunately, many schools aren’t equipped with AEDs.

For that reason, Duracell and Zoll Medical Corp. have teamed up to help inform parents and educators about the importance of being prepared for these critical situations.

“Through this campaign, we want to work with communities across the country to provide their schools with the tools necessary to help save lives,” said Kara Salzillo, manager of brand communications for Duracell.

Are you physically fit? This is a question that should be floating through the minds of many Americans. And I’m not just referring to your exterior.

Sure, it’s great to look nice and be confident in yourself, but it’s also crucial to be physically healthy. Do you know how to go about this? Well, herein lies the dilemma. Many individuals around the globe are not privy to what’s imperative when it comes to looking great and being in good health. There are many misconceptions at play. When in doubt, a couple things you can always count on to prevail are healthy diets and rigorous exercise workouts. We all require both of these in order to stay healthy and look great.

What exercise workouts do you prefer? For me it all revolves around martial arts. I love Wing Chun kung fu. Therefore, along with technique training and sparring, I like to do a lot of simple exercise workouts such as push-ups, leg raises, and pull-ups. These common exercise workouts are as old as time, but still very effective. And do you know what I like best about them; they’re all free. I don’t need to fork out cash every month on a gym membership to do them. Not to say that this is a bad idea. For some, a gym membership is right up their ally. Maybe this is how you achieve your exercise workouts. If it works for you, then that’s what counts. My wife will ONLY work out if she is in a gym or fitness center of some kind. When she’s at home, getting her into any exercise workouts is virtually impossible. I even pick on her about it once in a while. It must be the plain and simple atmosphere for some folks. Regardless of where you like to get it done, exercise workouts are what will get and keep you in shape. It is a permanent thing. Once you start, you never quit. If you quit your regime once you’re the desired weight, then you’ll probably end up back where you started.

One of the crucial side-kicks to exercise workouts is diet. You absolutely must conform to a healthy way of eating. This is no joke for a number of reasons. You must eat well in order to stay in shape. Your diet has a bearing on your lifespan, and your chances of acquiring cancer. If that isn’t enough to motivate you, then maybe your physical appearance is. Get on the web today and discover a number of great exercise workouts and diet plans.

Leatherwork is a part of visual expressions that frets about the generation of things and articles with cowhide as the chief material. It includes the different procedures of setting up the skins (external covers of little creatures) and covers up (external covers of expansive creatures) into cowhide and utilizing proper instruments and materials and in addition methods to deliver calfskin articles. Leatherwork is in this manner not restricted to just the planning of the external covers of creatures into calfskin, yet additionally, the generation of articles utilizing the cowhide got.

Leatherwork as a field of study has a few social and monetary importance.

1. It fills in as a road for imagination and self-articulation:

Leatherwork is a for all intents and purposes situated subject that expects understudies to create a few viable works with different topics. In the execution of these works, imagination and self-articulation is the prime concentration or is given the essential consideration. Understudies are relied upon to create unique works and express their own particular selves utilizing the devices, materials, and strategies available to them. This aides in the advancement and improvement of the understudies’ innovative capacities. It additionally offers them a stage to convey what needs be.

2. It makes life worth living and agreeable:

The investigation of leatherwork goes for helping the student to meet his or her fundamental necessities in life. At the point when the requirements of man are fulfilled, life ends up plainly charming, worth living and agreeable. Different articles which are critical required in the running of our every day exercises are delivered because of the examination in leatherwork. From the defensive dress of the individual, shoes, packs and upholstery to the compartments of the market ladies are conceivable just through leatherwork.

Understudies are learned educated on the correct utilization of calfskin and are invested with aptitudes in the generation of things in leatherwork. This makes life intriguing and worth living.

3. It makes a few business roads for students and other individuals in the nation:

Because of the way that understudies are educated and given important abilities in the generation of calfskin articles, they can set up their own little scale enterprises in cowhide creation. Additionally, leatherwork gives work to the huge populace of individuals in a nation. Some of these incorporate calfskin leather experts, coaches, dealers, professionals, and so forth. Without the investigation of leatherwork, the vast majority of the general population in our nation would have been jobless, in this way, without a work to have the capacity to fight for themselves, their families and the country overall through the paying of expenses.

4. It advances tourism and culture:

Different things delivered in leatherwork are sold to sightseers who visit the nation. They, thus, exchange the exportation of leatherworks to other outside grounds. Most calfskin articles bear our social images and this aides in the advancement of our Ghanaian rich social legacy. Calfskin things, for example, armlets, pieces of jewelry, wristlets, caps, records and organizers, sacks, shoes and so forth monstrously advance the tourism business.

Completing is worried about the change of the hand and appearance of an item to upgrade its general standpoint and amplify its attractiveness possibilities. It is basic that Leatherwork articles are done in any of the acknowledged completing procedures to uplift their plan and tasteful qualities. There are different suitable methods through which calfskin items can be done. Some of these systems are shining, waxing, cleaning, showering, finishing, protecting. utilizing conditioners, cleansers, and cleaners.

1. Shining

This is a beautiful procedure in which a smooth surface/device is rubbed over the surface of the cowhide to deliver a sheen. The calfskin is set on a hard surface. At that point a limit, smooth instrument, for instance, Stone, bottle, knob, spoon, marble or some smooth, hard question is utilized to rub over the surface of the calfskin on the grain side to create a sparkling impact. This is finished by beginning from a point and working slowly to all parts of the calfskin until the point when a uniform sheen is delivered. By this procedure, the unpleasant surface of the cowhide and any wrinkles are smoothed or cleaned. This is finished by thoroughly rubbing the surface of cowhide with an instrument, for example, a bone organizer, plastic or wooden shining wheel, stone, bottle, metal spoon and so on to leave a fine sparkling, gleaming or smooth appearance.

2. Waxing

This completing procedure includes the use of wax to enhance the surface quality, hardness, and water safe capacity of the calfskin thing. The use of the wax should be possible by the utilization of brush or froth to give a reflexive impact to the cowhide item.

3. Cleaning

This completing strategy likewise goes for enhancing the surface nature of cowhide items. Clean as abrasives with changing hues and cleaning alcohols like veneer or varnish are connected with either hard swarm brushes or froth to enhance the surface nature of cowhide things. In some cases wax is utilized to upgrade the surface nature of the calfskin.

4. Splashing

This is the use of cleaning mixers like varnish or enamel on cowhide things by the utilization of shower weapons or diffusers that spill the cleaning specialists in fine bits or specks on the calfskin thing to enhance its surface quality. Splashing maintains a strategic distance from the brush strokes that occasionally damage the ideal use of the cleaning mixers.

5. Finishing

This is accomplished by the utilization of colors, acrylics, and other shading specialists by chiseling, stamping, printing, splashing and so on. These are utilized as a part of making examples or surfaces on the grain side of the calfskin for enlivening purposes.

6. Protecting

This is the utilization of finish or varnishes in layers on the cowhide to give the surface a waterproof impact and make the surface exceptionally gleaming.

7. Utilizing Conditioners

Calfskin conditioners relax and sustain the cowhide while giving a defensive covering over the cowhide. This helps the calfskin to have the capacity to oppose scraping and shading blur. It gives the surface brilliance to cowhide in the wake of cleaning. Cases and conditioners, their capacities and application have been examined beneath.

The aim for beginners to weight training must be to lay the foundations for the intensive workouts that their bodies will eventually be subjected to. Obviously successful bodybuilding involves bringing together disparate elements such as nutrition and rest but choosing the right exercises is crucial. In this article we’ll outline the barbell exercises that will enable new bodybuilders to develop the general strength and body conditioning needed.

Initially beginners should aim to complete two sets of ten to twelve reps but after a few weeks, when you have developed sufficient control and basic strength, experiment with one set of six to eight reps to failure. This will maximize your muscle growth and give you the impetus to move on to the next stage of development. Before long you’ll find the use of this single piece of equipment restricting, so later in this series of articles we’ll pull together a muscle boosting program that utilizes other equipment to take you to the intermediate level. In the meantime, get to work with these exercises in order to get used to working your muscles.

Start off training four days per week and work body parts on the following basis not forgetting to incorporate rest days:

Article Body:
According to past research and studies, nearly 80% of all Americans will experience some type of back pain in their lives. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons believes this as well, as they say 80% of us out there will encounter some type of problem with our back before we die.

Traditionally, the treatment for lower back pain is increasing core strength to increase flexibility on muscles that are tight, which will provide better stabilization of the spine and exercises to correct the imbalances of the muscles. The muscles that surround the spine will provide stability and support of the spinal column.

Every muscle between the hips and shoulders are included as well, as these muscles are referred to as the core muscles. Back pain can be a result of muscle imbalances caused by any of these core muscles. If the back of your thighs are weaker than the front of your thighs, there will be an uneven pull on the front of your spinal column.

There are some effective ways that you can integrate core strength training exercises into all of the exercises you perform, rather than doing just the traditional crunches and sit-ups. One such way is by breathing effectively. Deep breathing will utilize your diaphragm muscles which will help support the spinal column and lengthen the spine, which is great for your lower back and supporting you when you walk or run.

The tummy tuck and bridge lift can also help you to reduce back pain and strengthen the core muscles as well. The tummy tuck exercise is a simple pelvic tilt that draws the abdominal muscles away from the floor. Do perform a tummy tuck, simply lie face down on the floor and squeeze your glutes to strengthen your spine.

Instead of pressing into your thighs, you should instead reach your tailbone down towards your heels. Perform 15 reps of each exercise and alternate them until you have completed a couple of sets.

For the bridge, place your feet on a bench or on the floor and scoop your pelvis upward, as your rib cage should stay low to reduce any irritation to your spinal muscles. The bridge will help to relieve stress on your back and focus the muscle contractions into the glutes and the hamstrings.

Other exercises for lower back pain are the lumbar side stretch, hip flexor stretch, and calf stretches, as all three can help to alleviate pull on your spinal column.

Hip flexor stretch When doing a hip flexor stretch, bring one foot forward in a bent knee, 90 degree angle, while your other leg is on the floor behind you with your foot pointed upwards toward the ceiling. The hip flexor stretch will help to open up the muscles of your back on the side of the spine near your hips. You can also squeeze your glutes as well to deepen the stretch with each breath you exhale. You should begin to feel a stretch in your back leg, in the thigh front and the hamstrings on your front leg.

Lumbar side stretch This stretch will bring your legs wide with your knees bent while you sit or stand. Simply bring one hand down towards your foot on the inside of the thighs and your other hand behind your head